recently my sister and I have been experiencing some unexplained events in our home, and are considering the possibility of there being another presence here. we've experienced things like footsteps at night, lights turning on and off (with audibly hearing the switches flip), seemingly people talking downstairs, feelings of being watched, thuds at night, and hearing our names being called. Recently, I've also experienced food items gone missing randomly with no explanation. At times, my dog will also randomly stare and bark at things (such as our old rocking chair and the hallway looking up on to the stairs) for no apparent reason. by the way, my walls in my house are very thin, so we can pretty much hear everything, so the footsteps and thuds often occur when i am completely sure no one else is awake in the house, as i am typically the last one awake. what are your guys thoughts on this?

Has anybody come across a house that has had a dark history - I don't just mean one perp, I'm thinking houses where consecutive residents have indulged in criminal activity...almost like the house attracts dark energy?

Went to the Birdcage Theatre in Tombstone, Arizona in 2002 at night. Took a photo of the poker table. Two days later looked at the picture and noticed a misty torso standing to the left side of the table. Took with a Kodak Easy Share Digital Camera

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Little back story, I live in an apartment and it’s a house that was split up into a two bedroom downstairs, and a one bedroom upstairs.

I lived in the downstairs previously and in June I moved to the upstairs apartment. I always sensed a weird vibe coming from upstairs, I heard footsteps often and creaking. This apartment was the only one bed one bath available to me at the time, so I moved upstairs and immediately started feeling like someone was watching me. Nothing has happened besides a few bumps in the night, but recently my boyfriend and I have sensed weird vibes coming from the living room. He does not believe in anything but he does agree with me that he feels like someone is in the living room.

I have pretty bad sleep paralysis up in this apartment and bad dreams most nights. My cats act strange too, meowing at things that aren’t there, just weird horror movie stuff. Bad energy all around. Should I try to make contact and see what it wants? What do I do?

Just discovered this community, apologies if this is not the right place for this type of request.

Around 10 years ago, I went to a commercial haunted house in Texas that was the best haunted house experience I’ve had. It was either outside of Austin or Dallas and was out in the country. Once you got there, there were grounds with actors and the house itself looked like a cross between a Victorian home and an old country manor.

The most memorable experience was from when you entered the house. You’re greeted by a tour guide and are all in a small tightly packed room. Mid way through the guide’s spiel, the lights go out and you hear a faint whirring or humming noise. One by one, people in the room start screaming. Slowly but surely, you realize the ceiling is coming down. It continued to do so for a much longer than expected time, and definitely made folks feel claustrophobic. Lights came back on, ceiling raised, and the tour continued.

There were also ghost children actors, and lots of actors with realistic fake syringes.

This has been the best haunted house experience I’ve had, and I can never find the name of it! Any help is appreciated.

So I don't know what I'm looking for while typing this but maybe someone to relate. My girlfriend and I rented a house a few months ago and it has a bedroom upstairs that had a very dark feeling to it. The first night we slept up there we both had extremely vivid nightmares. I have felt like someone's face is like literally a inch away from mine with extreme intensity. Then while laying in bed flashes or horrible morbid things would go through my mind. When we would sleep downstairs it would be fine. When I walk past the stairway going upstairs I often see a silhouette of someone standing there. We got a cat and for whatever reason I don't see the silhouette anymore but still have the same experiences upstairs. Probably completely unrelated but the other morning I started heading downstairs and my feet gave way and i slid down the stairs and broke my foot on the door jam. I've been walking up and down stairs for over forty years and never just randomly fall down the steps. I don't know if it's all in my head but my girlfriend sees and feels the same things I do.

She told me this morning at 4:30AM as I was getting ready for work. She said she was scared she couldn’t go back to sleep.

Flickering lights and hearing voices(both occasionally)

There isn’t much in the way of a definitive guide to quality haunted houses. I’m curious what haunts others have visited with movie quality makeup, acting, costumes, and/or sets. What haunted houses have you been impressed by? When have you felt really immersed in the fantasy created by a haunted house.

Anybody see a map or app of haunted locations you could track ones you have been to? Like Strava for haunted spots haha?

My sister and I were manipulated to buy a house, in July, long story that I won’t go into.

We’re in the process of moving in, it’s just down the street from my current house.

At the signing at the real estate office, after we’d signed everything, the seller said, with a sheepish look on her face, “do you have to disclose if a house is haunted or had a murder in it?”.

The real estate agent said no and my nervous sister just started blathering about Amityville and nothing further was discussed about why the woman asked that.

But it’s been bothering me.

I looked up records online about who lived there, the house was built in 1950 but the records place online only goes back as far as 1980 and they said I have to go to a department of records in my county to find out anything before that.

We noticed the woman (who had lived there for 20 years but was in a big hurry to leave, supposedly because she didn’t like neighbors….), didn’t use the front bedroom as a bedroom nor did her son and his wife but rather they used the bedroom as a “gym” and him and his wife used the finished cellar as a bedroom while the mother made the attic into her bedroom and bathroom.

She also built an addition on the back of the house as a “living room”, so we’re wondering why she needed two living rooms (the son, wife and little girl used the basement as a living room). Was she avoiding the original living room?

I’ve been there by myself at night unpacking, it’s a bit unnerving but it could just be being in an unfurnished house at night alone.

I emailed her asking about the comment at the real estate office this afternoon but haven’t gotten a reply yet.

We plan to move in by spring but if a murder did occur there, we would not want to live there, haunted or not, and would sell.

Do you think I have good reason to be worried?

Hello!

My birthday is next week, and last year I took a really lovely solo road trip to Point Pleasant WV, and then I stopped at the Moonville bridge on my way home (I used to live in central ohio). I now live in the Cleveland area and want to do something similar.

What are some good suggestions for haunted places to visit within a 2-3 hour driving range from Cleveland, with similar vibes? Ideally a small town/out in nature/etc. also I have already visited the Mansfield reformatory.

Thank you!

Hello! New to this one, but I had to find somewhere to post the insanity that has been going on again.

My husband and I bought our house in 2022. When we moved in, our kids were 2 (m) and 3 (f). To preface, I always dream of my deceased relatives and know it’s them. But, before we had closed on this house, I had a dream that my house was being haunted by this older woman. I ignored the dream and never told anyone.

Flash forward, we move in. My daughter is walking through the kitchen pointing up at the walls saying “Hi Theresa!” And giggling. Were like who tf is Theresa? We didn’t know anyone named Theresa. I don’t think she’s ever heard this name. This continues. Then, a night or so after that, I wake up in the middle of the night and see this woman in a nightgown standing next to my bed looking out the window. I close my eyes and open again and she’s gone. I am freaked out and start texting my aunt. My aunt looks up the property records and the original owners from 1900, Theresa and (I forgot the man’s name).

Following this, we have slamming doors and footsteps. It doesn’t feel aggressive though so I sage and move on. This goes on for a while on and off. My tv will also turn on by itself in the middle of the night.

Now, last summer my brother in law was staying with us and sleeping in our guest room downstairs. He claims he was poked very hard in the back while sleeping and had come in to his things thrown all over the room (we weren’t home so couldn’t have been kids). He refuses to go back in and sleeps on the couch. Same thing, sage and move on. To us, Theresa has been a positive spirit we never felt anything negative ever. So we’d just say “oh that’s Theresa” when weird things happen.

How fast forward it’s 2024, we have a 6 yo (f), 4 yo (m), and 4 MONTH old (m). Two nights ago, we are sleeping and I wake up to my hall light being turned on. I eventually get up and walk out to turn it off and hear kid footsteps running downstairs. I thought it was one of the kids, so I go to their rooms to see which one. They’re both asleep! I turn the hall light off and go back to sleep ignoring Theresa again. An hour later, we are woken by my infant son’s bedside bassinet falling over WITH HIM IN IT! Luckily the way it fell, he wasn’t on the grown just kind of sitting up in the bassinet. This thing is metal and very sturdy. Doesn’t just tip over! Then last night I’m downstairs in the spare room. I keep my printer in there and was doing something and I hear my son whisper “Dad!” Over and over again. I finally yell “why are you awake!!” And my husband comes in and is like who are you talking to?? And I realize my son is still asleep in bed. It sounded like he was right outside the door.

Any advice? Thoughts? We have never felt it was negative until the baby’s bassinet tipping and now we are stressed!

History on the house: We live minutes from Gettysburg, PA. Our home was built in 1900. We live directly across the street from a large Catholic Church that Theresa was very involved in.

Hey, so I wasn’t sure where else to post this and if it’s the wrong place I do apologise but I’m looking for some advice because I’m creeped tf out. So I live at home with my mum and brother, I’m a recent university graduate and currently am unemployed so I spend the most time at home out of everyone. Ive said for a few years now I think my house is haunted but there’s never been anything like crazy or reoccurring to confirm it, the first thing that I’d heard was footsteps upstairs, and my mum had said she’d heard them too on a separate occasion, but that was a long time ago. Another occasion with footsteps was during the night a few years ago, they were so loud I thought someone had broken in and so I woke my parents up.

Over the last few weeks I’ve really started to get freaked out though, I feel like things are happening and it could just be my mind running away with itself. The one that REALLY freaked me out though was about 2 weeks ago, I was home alone and I was downstairs on the couch and I heard someone knocking at the back window, I know it wasn’t my mind or something else because my dog jumped up and ran to the front door. I was genuinely scared to look but of course no one was there. Not long before that I was downstairs in the kitchen during the night, I heard a dragging noise in the hallway and I popped my head out the kitchen door. I couldn’t see into the hallway but I could see into the living room where my dog was standing staring into the hallway. When I walked into the hall the hallway cupboard door was completely open (the dragging noise was a jacket on the door).

My dog has also barked at nothing in the hallway before, and not a playful bark but as if to tell us someone was there. He did this at 5am a few weeks ago which he’s never did before.

Tonight about 12am I was leaving my bedroom to fill up my water bottle and I could see the downstairs tv was on and playing a channel. I know for a fact it was off prior to this because I had been downstairs myself and I know I didn’t turn it on because I wasn’t anywhere near the remote. I haven’t left my room since but I’m confident the tv has turned back off as I can no longer hear it, this is something that has never happened before.

I don’t know if it’s a ghost or if it’s my mind taking a bunch of small things and making them out to be a bigger deal than they are, but it’s seriously freaking tf out of me. Hypothetically, if it is a ghost what do I do? How do I get them to leave? I’m assuming an eviction notice won’t work, I have sage but I don’t know how effective it would be? Reality is I’m In here myself 90% of the time and I feel uncomfortable and scared in my home. I’ve spoken to my brother and he says he’s also had the opinion our house is haunted, but it seems like no one but me is experiencing things (apart from my mum with the footsteps years ago) and that’s what’s making me wonder if it’s my mind making things up.

I was just wondering if anyone could offer their opinion on this? TIA 🩷

Okay, so I love going to haunts. None of my friends or family want to go. My question is, am I a weirdo if I go alone? Haha. This is the last weekend and I really want to go.

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Does anyone know any extreme haunts in Texas or close enough? Even if not extreme haunts, full contact stuff that is extremely intense.

i want to go to a haunted house today with my man before the halloween season is over and i want to make sure we pick a really good one! we went to fear forest in lordstown and liked it but i wasnt too scared. ive been looking at blood prison at the ohio state reformatory, factory of terror, or the haunted schoolhouse and laboratory in akron. any thoughts?

Haunted demonic story for Halloween. All events were true as I witnessed and felt it myself. To preface I see and attract energies off all kinds and the veil is thinner when I around.

So it’s 2013-15 I was running a pet and nanny service for many years. In 2011 I lost my primary job so the business was my focus. I get a new client call a man with one cat. He prefaced before I came that it was an abandoned house he bought and was fixing up. When I got there he said I was not allowed in any rooms and all doors were closed and don’t go upstairs. He told me the basement was fine as the cat hides down there. when I got to the house it was literally in the middle of a crossroads if pagan people understand what that does. It makes the spiritual realm veil much thinner all the time. The cat looks evil and like it started to get mange. Something made me want to leave every time I went. As the relationship with the client blossomed it got heavier and heavier after every visit. As time progressed the cat felt sick to me and getting sicker as it spent time there. This all hit a head in one vacation visit like in two days as I saw the cat once or twice a day. I go there and it’s so heavy my chest felt compressed. I can’t find the cat so I go to the basement. It was 3 sections with a small hallway on one side connecting it all. This day it hit me. I go down there and there’s cat poop in like designs on the floor nearly evenly spaced. I think to myself weird. I see the room in the middle and investigate more I realize there’s only one door and it has padlocked on the front. So ok freaked. Rush feed the cat and leave. I go back next visit can’t find the cat again back to the basement mind you the house now feels like it has its own evil life force at this point I’m in the basement looking for the cat don’t find the cat but hear rumbling upstairs. I rush up because I need to find the cat. I look down the hallway and this door was completely off the hinges and wide open. I go to the end of the hallway and look in the room. I was shocked and still am to this day. Everything in this bedroom is broken in pieces. Everything is stacked in pyramids up against the walls. Gravity would not balance the stuff like that. I had a real heart attack and run away from the house. At this point I had one visit left. I get balls and head there. Cat is missing but never stuck around to find out off to the basement again now after the visit before I’m curious what’s on the room in the back end and trying to see if the cat is there. Get to that section look up at the wall. It’s painted in all deep satanic symbols but these are the real ones and not the internet or fan book kind. I see that and start running I get to the other side and get stopped in my tracks to a tall hooded figure with red eyes. I hear get out loud and clear in the sickest voice I’ve ever heard. I book it out of there and never look back. I wonder often if the guy realized what was painted on the walls and bought it anyway or if he didn’t know or believe. I also think often that demon was living off the life force of the man and cat as the man too was getting sick more often after I started.

This is a warning if you ever see weird symbols written carved or painted have a professional explain what they are. Take the precautions to remove them properly and clear the energy. Also if you go to see a place before you use as a home business please if it feels wrong when you step foot even iffy and not totally welcoming if your not prepared or knowledgeable in energies and how they transfer please leave and don’t look back.

Please Halloween is coming from about yesterday to November 2nd do not go to a cemetery as it’s 100 percent likely you will take a newly attached spirit home with you especially if you take anything at all like a small stone cion blade of grass even. There are types of spirits that live in cemeteries that are not human they are dark but most of the time best to stay there. They eat the energy the dead give off as a dead body if not cremated with give off energy for eternity. It has energy related to all the people good bad and tragic. Also human and demon activity is up this time also. Please stay safe all and hope this story freaked you out good enough for Halloween!

My friend has a home haunted house and is wondering how to make it scarier

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Any tips or ideas are welcome!

This is in a basement with limited space

My friends have been begging me to go to a haunted house since freshman year of high school, and I’m finally a senior, so I caved. We’re going to Paranoia in Canton, GA.

I’ve always been scared easily and I know I should be worried, but I’m nervous to go. I’ve never watched a true horror movie or a haunted house that wasn’t put together by my neighbors for small children.

The only experience I’ve had with a haunted house was a haunted corn maze in 6th grade; I went to get in line (there was a single scare actor in the queue) where I got so scared I ran away crying. Am I screwed?

I’ve been to a few haunted houses and have been disappointed. I LOVE being scared at haunted houses and don’t mind traveling a little bit. I just don’t want to travel and wait in a long line for a bad experience. Anyone have any suggestions?